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Strong's #519 - ἀπάγχομαι

Transliteration

apánchomai

Phonetics

ap-ang'-khom-ahee

Origin

from (G575) and agcho (to choke akin to the base of (G43))

Parts of Speech

verb

TDNT

None

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

to throttle, strangle, in order to put out of the way or kill
to hang one's self, to end one's life by hanging

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 2614 ‑ חָנַק (khaw‑nak');

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Matthew 1

BSB (1)

Matthew 1

CSB (1)

Matthew 1

ESV (1)

Matthew 1

KJV (1)

Matthew 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

Matthew 1

N95 (1)

Matthew 1

NAS (1)

Matthew 1

NLT (1)

Matthew 2

WEB (1)

Matthew 1

YLT (1)

Matthew 1

ASV (1)

away and hanged himself 1

BSB (1)

hanged himself 1

CSB (1)

himself 1

ESV (1)

hanged himself 1

KJV (1)

himself 1

LEB (0)

The Lexham English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

hanged 1

N95 (1)

hanged 1

NAS (1)

hanged 1

NLT (1)

hanged 1

WEB (1)

away and hanged himself 1

YLT (1)

he did strangle himself 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

V-AMI-3S 1

ANT

V-AMI-3S 1

BEZ

V-AMI-3S 1

BGB

V-AMI-3S 1

BMT

V-AMI-3S 1

BYZ

V-AMI-3S 1

ELZ

V-AMI-3S 1

NA26

V-3AMIS 1

SBL

V-AMI-3S 1

SCV

V-AMI-3S 1

STV

V-AMI-3S 1

TIS

V-AMI-3S 1

TRG

V-AMI-3S 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

ἀπαìγχομαι

From G575 and ἄγχω agchō (to choke; akin to the base of G43);

ἄγχω, fut. ἄγξω Ar. Ec. 638, Luc. DMort. 22.1: aor. 1 inf. ἄγξαι v.l. for ἄξαι LXX 4 Maccabees 9:17, (ἀπ-) Ar. Pax 796: — Med. and Pass. (v. infr.) only in pres.: — squeeze, esp. the throat, ἄγχε μιν ἱμὰς ὑπὸ δειρήν Il. 3.371; embrace, μὴ θέλουσαν Anacreont. 57.22, cf. Herod. 1.18; hug, in wrestling, Id. 2.12, Luc. Anach. 1, Paus. 8.40.2, Philostr. Im. 1.6 (Pass.); strangle, throttle, τοὺς πατέρας ἦγχον νύκτωρ Ar. V. 1039, cf. Ec. 638, 640; τὸν Κέρβερον ἀπῇζας ἄγχων Id. Ra. 468, cf. Av. 1575; κἂν ταῦρον ἄγχοις Id. Lys. 81, cf. Crates Com. 29, D. 54.20, Theoc. 5.106, APl. 4.90; ἐν χαλινῷ τὰς σιαγόνας ἄ. LXX Psalms 31:9 (32). 9: metaph., of pressing creditors, Ar. Eq. 775, Luc. Symp. 32; ψυχὴ ὑπὸ τοῦ σώματος ἀγχομένη Corp.Herm. 10.24, cf. 7.3; of a guilty conscience, τοῦτο.. ἄγχει, σιωπᾶν ποιεῖ D. 19.208: — Med., strangle oneself, Hp. Morb. 2.68: — Pass., Pi. N. 1.46, D. 47.59, Theoc. 7.125; to be drowned, Hp. Virg. 1. — Not in Trag.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

ἀπάγχω (cf. Latinangustus,anxius, English anguish, etc.; Curtius, § 166): 1 aorist middle ἀπηγξαμην; to throttle, strangle, in order to put out of the way (ἀπό away, cf. ἀποκτείνω to kill off), Homer, Odyssey 19, 230; middle to hang oneself, to end one's life by hanging: Matthew 27:5. (2 Samuel 17:23; Tobit 3:10; in Attic from Aeschylus down.)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

ἀπ -άγχω

(< ἄγχω , to press, strangle),

[in LXX: 2 Samuel 17:23 (H2614), Tobit 3:10*;]

to strangle; mid., to hang oneself (or, to choke; v. M, Pr., 155): Matthew 27:5.†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

List of Word Forms

απηγξατο απήγξατο ἀπήγξατο apenxato apēnxato apḗnxato